Title :
Linked Data in Government
Author :
Shadbolt, Nigel ; O´Hara, Kieron
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
Government data is powerful, plentiful, and relevant to citizens´ concerns. Making it open supports transparency, crowdsourcing data enhancement, and innovative service development. The authors review the state of linked open government data, in the context of the potential for the publishing organizations and the Linked Data Web itself, as well as the administrative and political issues raised.
Keywords :
Internet; data handling; government data processing; administrative issue; crowdsourcing data enhancement; linked data; linked data Web; linked open government data; political issue; publishing organization; service development; Crowdsourcing; Data models; Government; Information processing; Resource description framework; government data; linked data; open data;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2013.72
